Black, Pat Coll,Married Annie Fitzgerald,
And they farmed here at Ballynamuddagh
from 1850-1906. The Photo, on right taken
1898, L/R.Mary,Owen,Katie on Black Pats Knee,Lizzie,Robert My Grandfather.
and Sally, who Married jimmy Ambrose..
Mary,Married her second cousin ,Owen Coll,there family was,Richard, Sonny, Eamon,Bridie, Paddy,Theresa, they Lived in limerick. Owen Married Lizzie Raleigh, and had three in family.Sarah, Annie ,Sonny, c/o Central Bar ,Bruree. Lizzie Married ,Joe Raleigh,A brother of lizzie raleigh. Their family, Mikie, Lizzie, Cassie, Patrick,Thomas, Walter, Mary,Annie, Robert, was my Grandfather Married Nora Howard, They had six children, Patrick,Katie was my mother. Annie, Mary, Sarah, Lizzie. Katie, Married Her first cousin Tommy Dwane and they had seven in family. Tommy,Robert,Paddy,Margaret, Sr.Mary,Sr.Clotilde, Eileen. Sally, Married Jimmy Ambrose.And they had eight children, Timmy,Jimmy Annie,Patie, Margaret,Mary Ita, Beth,Sal, {Eily, Mossy And Sean.Doody}... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Photo
of maidstowncasctle,
Home of the great BobColl, 1854-1920 Brother of Black Pat Coll, Bob Coll Married Emily Hogan and they had nine children,Robert was one of the founders members of Dromin football club,He served as chairman of Limerick County Council From 1902 to 1905....... ------------------------------------------------------------------  Bob Coll was
born at Maidstone Castle,Parish of drominin 1854 and was educated at Weirs College, the crescent, limerick. He was a member ofLimerick County council for the bruree Elecoral Division from 1899 to 1905,Being elected Chairman of the second council (1902-1905). He was a great all round athlete and uncle of Larry Roche-Owen D Coll who were also famous Athletes in their own right.Another Nephew, Robert Roche was the first County Sec1900 to 1913.- Bobs brother Patrick Coll was a member of the County Council from (1900 to1902 in his capacity as Chairman of the Kilmallock Rural District Council......... Patrick Coll`s Immediate predecessor in this position, David Moloney, Bridge House, Knocklong, was a member of the council from 1899 to 1900 and his grandson, John McCarthy is now the County Veterinary Officer. Bob Coll was described by Frank Dineen, the great judge of an athlete, as `one of the best all- round men the world ever produced adding that if there had been a governing body for athletes in his time , then the world records made by Bob Coll would still be standing`. In addition , he was a first class amateur boxer , handball player and accomplished horseman. It was said of Robert Coll that as chairman of the Council, he could leap over agenda sheets as quickly and as successfully as he did over the bar in the athletic World! Bob Coll`s nephew, OwenD Coll was one of the first six clerical officers  recruited
by the new
Limerick County Council in november1901. As already
noted in the article on the council`s formative years , his prowess on
the
athletic field was second to none. He died suddenly in august, 1940,
while still in the
service of the Council.Owen D Coll was born at knockmore, Bruree in 1882. He was a classmate at bruree National School of Eamon De Valera and Tim Hannon. [a member of limerick county council from -1934 to 1942]. He started work in the county council in 1901 at the age of nineteen years. Later, he came to live ,with his wife Mary coll [a second cousin] at no 7 st, johns villas, Mulgrave Street, Limerick. Patrick Joseph Coll , {foxy pat} of knockmore,  Seen here with his first wife Bridget Cleary, photo taken about {1889} They had Four boys, Richard, married. Owen , married. Robert, unmarried. patrick, unmarried. Maggie ,{Rossinberg} mckenna. Babe became mrs byrnes, and had three boys and one girl,william,Dr Owen,Dr Cilina, Dr James........................  Bridget as you can see died in child birth feb 10th 1893.. And some time later Foxy Pat Married Hanora theresa Cowhey and they had three boys and three girls. Father Joseph, Jimmy, John unmarried, Bunny, C Brown,Baby, Helen Reilly,Baba,Kathleen Boyle...  The
House on the right of screen was Constructed at theturn of the 20th Century By {Foxy Pat Coll seen above photo} It consisted of a shop and served as post office until the late sixties. The Last owner of the old post office, seen here which is situated at main st Bruree, County Limerick, was A daughter of {Foxy pat coll} name Bunny Brown, The Current owner`s are JAMES AND Geraldine COLL, Jame`s Great Grandfather {Black Pat coll of Ballinamuddagh, Dromin was a first cousin ofFoxy pat coll ofKnockmore, bruree}. Last up date; 20th june 2009............................................................ ================================================ ================================================ |
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